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Doing some fridge clean up since Dan dodged on Friday. Also, just realized I haven't drank a beer since Friday.

Other people's poops in this toilet caused me to revisit loose cannon for the first time in like 2 years. Nb at all.

Drinking a brew or two from the Alchemist tonight, maybe finally chat with joe on vent????

It was clearly a dodge, it was a donno if car will make it

Besides, drank and gamed with

magic hat winter seasonal black lager

bears on monday night, thats a huge dodge

i wish this was practiced more

bought a 6 of flying dog raging bitch belgian ipa

will proal try it tomorrow or wednesday

8.99 for mix a six?!?!?

Cute how the lowest I've seen that in PA was $12. Thanks for that 50 cent up charge per bottle because buying less than a case of anything in PA is taboo.

the only trouble is the average beers sit there for months/years. my local place stopped doing that a year ago because they still had 08 bottles floating around.
, its awesome for the consumer though

Sadly, the bottles from '08 were proelbay ipas or something that was clearly friendly to aging. Selling perishable products has got to be a bitch... You want to make enough to go around so that it's accessible but then a market gets flooded with options and your product goes to the wayside. By the time someone tries it, they get a negative opinion cuz its dated.

Mark my words, when I own a brewery no "drink me now" beer will ever see single serving packaging. Draft only. Only thing going in bottles will beer that can be aged.

the worst one of note was hercules ipa, bottled in like oct 08, was there until around the start of 2011. and yea, most were ipas because any stout/barleywine etc were snapped by me when is aw they were aged for me.

Actually enjoy raging bitch, its def got the belgian but its a nice mix

When, clearly if

Dearest please propose a time that we can discuss the details of this weekends beer acquisition either on vent or via phone call.
I am for the most part available later this evening and Thursday evening if this is to take place on vent. A phone call on the other hand can be placed at your earliest convenience.

home, need to eat etc
proal some time in the next 30-60 min i will be on

which means now anytime in the next 10-40 minutes.
Wife is putting babby to sleep, as soon as that mission is accomplished I shall be away from the vent afkness channel

i dont understand this message. you only have the next 10-40 minutes, or you have after the 10-40 minutes?

WHY ARE YOU SO CRYPTIC!

FIGGY PUDDING CONFIRMED
HOW MUCH FUCKING MONEY WILL I SPEND IN NOVEMBER

i was updating your timeline to coincide with when I read it
babby has been put to beds, awaiting vent confirmages

http://raclodge.com/PDFs/info__order_form.pdf
their website is pretty fucking bad but they list 09 sang royal




pre-edit edit:
http://www.cascadebrewingbarrelhouse.com/
its currently on tap

I never should have looked at this, now I'm drooling.
Wonder why Dan couldn't come on vent to chat with us. He is on untappd logging the beer he's been drinking the entire time we were talking

Our chatting forced me to look at Belmont stations website...god damnit!

Firestone walker anniversary
Block 15 saison
Evil twin offerings
Upright saisons ( I've heard that these run like $5 a 750ml...what the fuck we need these in PA!$)

i got a text today telling me if i wanted to know which awesome beer he was drinking i needed to check untapped!!

shhh, im pretending they dont exist atm

hotd starts at 9
46 confirmed people going, all with potential mules
how early you think i need to be there?

I saw a comment by Alan that said the line will form at 5:00... that is freaking insane.

if i need to be in line for 4 hours i dont even think i need to say sorry
!

seriously though, ill get up there at 7
ill drive by, either get in line or go have breakfast

i dont know what the fucking weather is like where you are but i think id rather set myself on fire than stand outside for 4 hours in 10 degrees. if im clearly mistaken, they arnt even allowed to drink in line... or are they?

11/12/11 portland forcast:
high 49, low 46, 90% chance of rain
the thing to remember is if the temperature does clearly change at all during the day/night that means its raining the entire time
10.3mm precipitation forcasted

the good thing is the morning should be a little colder, moving to rain in the early afternoon. i should be able to get out of portland with little rain (likely just constant mist and low 40s.

http://beeradvocate.com/forum/read/4211977

Cake

get to hotd roughly 6:55
its 39 degrees
im roughly 50th in line
there is a light breeze
i stand in the same spot for 2 hours essentially delirious from cold/hunger/omg i have to poop a 4th time already just dontthinkaboutitdontthinkaboutitdontthinkaboutit
bye the time 9 rolls around there is probably 175-200 people in line
many people seem to find their way to the front from the one person in 3 that saved a spot
case after case of adam leaves the building (along with cases of fred and doggie claws, basically everyone initially walked out ith 3 cases and a six pack of ruth [i still need to try this!])
9:30 i actually get in the front door
9:37 i find out the credit line is to the left, cash only is a straight shot (i vaguely remember this from last year)
ask for a case of adam, case of fred, 12 doggie claws
she only charges me 415, i dont immediately notice
i step over to the pickup line (essential where the 2 lines kinda rejoin at the pickup table)
i read my receipt, see it says 1 case adam, 11 doggie claws
i turn around and order my case of fred - 140 w/ case discount (say fuck the one doggie claws missing, clearly worth the effort as there is obviously too much going on for 5 people to handle [2 credit tellers, one cash teller, one cash order puller, one credit order puller])
i get in the pickup line again
when i am next in line to pickup in the credit side of the pickup table, the one guy i always see helping says "stop selling adam!"
only roughly the closest 20-30 hear this, a collective gasp is heard
there is still roughly 50 people inside and 100 people outside
i am next on the credit side, the 3 guys behind me from outside are next on the cash side
he pulls my adam, my 11 (lol) doggie claws
credit order puller pulls the order behind me, only 7 left
cash order taker kinda walks back from the table, hes now a wallflower
i try to get the credit order puller to pull my second order (case of fred, yes i know its confusing there are 2 orders, they both have my last name so its a girls name spelled wrong yes thats me i show him my receipt repeatedly i cant get my case of fred)
my case of adam sits there, the 7 after me next to it, they search for 5 more to give the guy after me
the cash line, with the people from right behind me whilst outside stops in its tracks
they line up the credit sales receipts, they need like 5 more cases or something
i keep trying to get this dudes attention that i only need a case of fred
i want out before they take my case of adam away!
finally i get his attention, get my case of fred, and walk out with the last "legitimate" case of adam from the wood

i load my car at 10 and drive to salem to finally poop for a forth time today

This post has been edited by blind_chief on Sat - Nov 12 2011 - 21:09:15

finish pooping, go buy gas, grab a blueberry scone (i told adam bagel because i was driving and it was easier to type!) and a nice strong americano (its espresso and hot water fags, basically coffee on roids)
drive to oakshire
south side of eugine, bout 85 miles from north side of keizer
place is an aluminum pole building you would expect to see farm equipment in
its 12:30, people are eating and drinking already
get in line
spend 10 minutes in line, line barely moves
group infront of me does clearly care, they keep chatting
couple behind me moves to the side, goes inside, comes back out to say bottles are sold on that side, there is no line, this line if for tasters and growler fills
why the fuck is there clearly a sign, like even a simple piece of paper written on with a magic marker saying:
"bottles
------->"
tell the guy thanks for the info, go buy a case $180

drive to albany, get a burgerville bacon cheese burger and small chocolate shake
i start to clearly have the shakes because i finally ate something real after 12 hours and a pot of coffee and an americano
get home

holy shit thats a lot of money in beer

first, im sorry for clearly pooping more details, was mostly just adam/dan/me through vent and texts
but basically 1/3 for each of us, though i did get 5 doggie claws for myself because its an amazing barley wine when its right
total tally:
415
140
180
-----

735/3 = 245 each
clearly terrible for a once a decade adam, once a year(?) fred, and first time ever hellshire II

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/429/72762
this is good

actually, this is excellent

Thats clearly including abyss right

right, or mom

i assumed an equal 3 way split, i dont know what you and adam actually agreed on

bottled my burnt mead, coming up on 2 years old

bottling banana melomel later this week, also coming up on 2 years old

got in 25 gallons of cider, 1 batch with a wine yeast, one with a hefe yeast, and one batch with cherry juice plus D 47

still have 10 gallons to figure something out with.....

adam from the wood:
smell - holy fucking smoke n wood

edit:
i take that back, its there but its clearly as strong as i first thought

This post has been edited by blind_chief on Sun - Nov 13 2011 - 15:33:03

i like what this did to adam, it took the harsh edge off but kept the flavor
!

http://beeradvocate.com/forum/read/4214128

aged RIS > Belgian stouts imo

agreed, but im sure it will still be good, and figgy pudding is apparently incredible

bourbon fred:
when alan says carb problems he means there is zero carb
its clearly bad because of this only lol @ "carb problems"

final verdict?

clearly much better than fresh apple cider

first batch down. sg=1.080 with safbrew s33